Improvement in cigar-lighters



H. R. WHITMAN. Cigar-Lighters.

No. 196,062. Patented Oct. 9, 1877.

ATTORN EY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

HERBERT R. WHITEMAN, OFV CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF vHIS RIGHT TO FRANK M. WHITEMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'CIGAR-LIGHTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,062, dated October 9, 1877; application led August 29, 1877.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, HERBERT It. WHITE- MAN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Cigar-Lighters and Cigars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in cigars; and consists in a lighter made according to the following description and claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a lighter illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lighter. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a cigar with my lighter attached, A'and Fig. 4 is an elevation of the same. A

A is a cigar. B- is one of myimproved cigarlighters. This cigar-lighter is composed of a.

pin or peg, but preferably a pin, C, and a disk Vof fabric or other combustible material, C1.

The disk C1, after it has been secured to the head of the pin or peg, is then dipped into a paste of iniiammable composition, which, in hardening, formsa thick, hard body, C2, which minate which will readily ignite by friction,

`as an ordinary matchV is ignited. This forms the outer finish, as shown at C3.

The paste to be employed is compounded as follows: I take, by measure, one part of charcoal, three parts of niter, 011e part of sulphur,

two parts of gum-arabic, two parts of flour, and moisten them into a paste of proper consistency with water, and the mass heated until the ingredients become thoroughly incorporated. This completes the paste. I generally add, however, a perfuming ingredient-such, for instance, as cascarilla-bark, or other substance-whereby an agreeable iavor is given, or an agreeable odor, or both.

I propose to manufacture the lighters as a separate article of manufacture, as also to manufacture the cigars with these lighters already attached, as an article of manufacture, and propose to make them either with or without the perfumed pastethat is to say, I proposertofmakemsomenof my lighters perfumed, and somewithout the perfumery.

This invention is suiiiciently illustrated by the drawings, and to light the cigar it4 is simplynecessaryto insert the match, as shown, and then draw the end of the cigar across a friction-surface to ignite the match; or, if the match or pad is already upon the cigar, it is ignited by friction, as before.

What I claim is- A cigar-lighter consisting of a pin or peg, C, disk C, iniiammable body C2, and a fulminate, Cf, the said inflammable body being composed of the described mixture of charcoal, niter, sulphur, gwn-arabic, and flour, and

either with or without a suitable perfuming'.

agent, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT R. WHITEMAN.

Witnesses:

F. TOUMEY, W. E. DoNNELLY. 

